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Page 30
... moving a treadle , one set , or every other thread , is thrown up , and the other set is brought down ; and at this instant , a cross thread or woof is thrown be- tween them by means of a shuttle . The lower set of ends are then raised ...
... moving a treadle , one set , or every other thread , is thrown up , and the other set is brought down ; and at this instant , a cross thread or woof is thrown be- tween them by means of a shuttle . The lower set of ends are then raised ...
Page 32
... moves the iron hand with fingers fine , Combs the wide card , and forms the eternal line ; Slow , with soft lips , the whirling can acquires The tender skains , and wraps in rising spires ; With quicken'd pace successive rollers move ...
... moves the iron hand with fingers fine , Combs the wide card , and forms the eternal line ; Slow , with soft lips , the whirling can acquires The tender skains , and wraps in rising spires ; With quicken'd pace successive rollers move ...
Page 50
... and the hand is the power to raise and overcome it . 165. The force with which any body moves is called its momentum . If a poy walk at the rate of two miles an hour , and go against a 50 MECHANICAL POWERS . Of the Mechanical Powers.
... and the hand is the power to raise and overcome it . 165. The force with which any body moves is called its momentum . If a poy walk at the rate of two miles an hour , and go against a 50 MECHANICAL POWERS . Of the Mechanical Powers.
Page 51
... moving at the rate of eight miles an hour , will have a momentum equal to six multiplied by eight , producing 48 : hence , those two balls move with separate momen- ta equal to 12 and to 48 ; or , in similar terms , one moves with four ...
... moving at the rate of eight miles an hour , will have a momentum equal to six multiplied by eight , producing 48 : hence , those two balls move with separate momen- ta equal to 12 and to 48 ; or , in similar terms , one moves with four ...
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... move five feet , while the stone moves only one foot ; because 100 multiplied by five , is equal to 500 multiplied by one . 168. This increase of motion in the arm is ef- fected by the lever ; because the motion of one end is in the ...
... move five feet , while the stone moves only one foot ; because 100 multiplied by five , is equal to 500 multiplied by one . 168. This increase of motion in the arm is ef- fected by the lever ; because the motion of one end is in the ...
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Page 29 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Page 29 - That levying money for or to the use of the Crown, by pretence of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal.
Page 91 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Page 78 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures...
Page 29 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 29 - Political liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every man, has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other man the free exercise of the same rights ; and these limits are determinable only by the law.
Page 60 - Horrid with frost and turbulent with storm, Blows autumn, and his golden fruits, away : Then melts into the spring : soft spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south, Recalls the first.
Page 78 - Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Page 78 - Fierce Winter sweeps them from the face of day. Even so luxurious men, unheeding, pass An idle summer life in fortune's shine, A season's glitter ! Thus they flutter on From toy to toy, from vanity to vice; Till, blown away by death, oblivion comes Behind, and strikes them from the book of life.